The rain held off and the caps and gowns stayed dry as Clark University conferred more than 1,000 degrees on undergraduate and graduate students at the 114th Commencement on May 20. Commencement speaker Hauwa Ibrahim, a human rights lawyer, offered the graduates an inspirational message: “For every challenge you encounter in life, there is a solution within. Sometimes you just have to scratch a little deeper to find it.” Learn more...

Outcomes with Impact

Alumni Outcome

This Clark startup is pitch perfect

While at Clark, Rebecca Liebman '15 co-founded LearnLux, providing online personal finance tools for Millennials. She recently won the PerfectPitch competition — and $400,000 in investments — at the South by Southwest Festival by making her pitch to actors Ashton Kutcher, Matthew McConaughey, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. A CEO herself, Liebman has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. "I came to Clark because I saw the opportunity to take initiative and saw that students really make things happen. That held true," Rebecca says.

She set the bar high and landed a job in biotech

As a student, Christie Joyce ’16, M.S. ’17, founded the Scholarly Undergraduate Research Journal and worked in Biology Professor Néva Meyer’s lab – experiences that ultimately helped her land a job at Corbus Pharmaceuticals. One of the hottest biotech companies in Boston, Corbus was founded by alumnus Dr. Mark Tepper ’79. “Working for Professor Meyer taught me to hold myself to the highest standard,” Christie says.

Lucian Kim '92 is NPR's man in Moscow

As National Public Radio’s Moscow correspondent, Lucian Kim '92 has covered Russia, Ukraine, and Germany for media outlets including Bloomberg News, Reuters, Slate, Newsweek, and The Christian Science Monitor. "I think a lot of what you learn in college becomes subconscious," Lucian says. "You might not remember the details of the material, but you’re equipped with certain observational and analytical skills."

He’s uprooting the traditional food system

Brad McNamara, M.B.A./ES &P ’13, launched Freight Farms while still a graduate student at Clark. Today, the company supplies 40-foot shipping containers retrofitted to grow vegetables and herbs in any location and climate. The company has sold more than 160 rigs across the world. “There’s no denying the impact if we can stay in the community, keep food local, and create food independence,” Brad says. “We want the focus to be on the farmers and the people they’re feeding.”